An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale occurred on Monday night at the border between China and Kyrgyzstan, Chinese media reported citing the seismological service. The shock was recorded at 03.12 local time (22.12 MSK on Sunday). Information on possible casualties or damage are not currently available, reports "Interfax'.

Seismologists for the last day recorded three earthquakes in the Kuril Islands, the magnitude of the strongest was 4.8, said on Friday, spokesman of the Far Eastern regional center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

"The first quake of magnitude 3.8 occurred on Thursday morning in the middle Kuril Islands (Iturup). Second magnitude 4.6 in 19.14 Sakhalin time (12.46) at 415 kilometers southwest of the town of North-Kurilsk (island Paramushir). The third earthquake of magnitude 4.8 occurred in 13 minutes, 300 kilometers north-east of the city Kurilsk (Iturup) ", — told the agency RIA "Novosti".

with the accumulation of 320 million tons of water in the high reservoir.Photo Reuters

The very human activities can have an impact on the seismic activity of the planet

"Coward was great …" With these words the Moscow Chronicle reported about the collapse of the constructed Pskov masters of the Assumption Cathedral in the Kremlin. Cathedral, whose construction began on the orders of Prince Ivan III, collapsed on the night of May 21, 1474. Waves of distant tectonic movements several times reached Moscow, but serious damage they did not cause the

An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale occurred on Monday at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean south of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

This was reported by the U.S. Geological Survey, which so far considered it inappropriate to declare a warning of a possible tsunami.

According to the service, tremors recorded at a depth of 414 km. Their epicenter corresponds to the surface area of the Pacific Ocean, located 110 km to the south of the island of Bougainville APFA (Papua New Guinea), and 150 km south-west of the Solomon Islands.

21.03.11.Na north of the Amur region again this morning there was an earthquake. Tremors villagers Yuktali Tynda district feel about 7am. Regional Emergency Management reported that the epicenter of the earthquake was 30 kilometers from the village. Its magnitude of 4.5.

In the north of the area in recent days was the third sizeable earthquake. Prior to that, Yuktali tremor recorded on March 18. And the day before, on March 17, an earthquake with a magnitude of up to 5 people felt two villages — Yuktali and Ust-Nyukzha.

Specialists Amur emergency department on its website posted information on how

Earthquake of magnitude 6.4 occurred on Friday in eastern India, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

According to seismologists, the epicenter of the earthquake was located near the border of India and Myanmar 85 kilometers northeast of the city of Imphal — the administrative center of the Indian state of Manipur. Hearth tremors occur at depths 88 kilometers.

8.9 magnitude earthquake, which occurred on Friday in Japan, led to a shift in the Earth's axis by about 10 centimeters, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy, according to RIA Novosti.

According to experts, "the impact of this phenomenon on the axis of rotation was much more significant than even in 2004 during the earthquake in Sumatra." Then the quake has shifted the Earth's axis by 6 inches.

Italian seismologists believe that in this respect the impact of the current disaster, second only to the influence of the strongest in the history of observations —

01.01.2011, Washington 14:18:57. 6.9 magnitude earthquake occurred in northern Argentina in a rural location 150km from g.Santyago del Estero, reports Reuters. The epicenter was located at a depth of 563 km. Information on casualties or damage were reported.

Earthquakes have been recorded by the USGS.

Note, according to the Chinese Geological Survey earthquake magnitude was 7.1.

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